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Note Taking Advice

I've been thinking about using the note taking options in BW 6.0 for a couple of purposes, but would like your advice if you take notes for similar purposes.

My purpose would be for sermon exegesis, and to be able to present or print/publish for my congregation a provisional study guide that would ride side saddle with my sermon notes each week.

My questions are: For those using the note feature, what do you like about it? Can you take the notes for a chapter or better yet, a paragraph, and publish them as a finished product...or do you need to dump the information into another product like MS Publisher to make it presentable?

I'm not sure whether this is responsive to your question -- but I never publish or do anything with my BW notes except use them in BW itself. They're too limited and balky.

I use verse by verse, because the comments I have are usually specific to the verse, and I wan them keyed that way. I would end up with a huge glop of material I'd have to piece through to find notes on v. 3 or 15; instead, I just go to that verse.

I write my sermons in MS Word, using a fairly standard format (I, A, 1, a, i, etc.). Then, when the sermon is mostly done, I gut it, leaving only the major points. I may turn a key word into a blank here and there, for the folks to fill in. That is what I give them as an outline. It usually includes my translation of the verse(s) we're studying, if that's the sermon format.

MS Word

That's pretty much what I am doing. Sometimes I will take some information that I think is interesting and make a supplemental sheet I call
'tech notes'. It may have a map and some archeological information or some point about Greek verbs...that I would not preach...but may want to point out for those who like those sorts of details. I'm just thinking about developing the notes in BW so that I could print something that would be hand out worthy in addition.